The Syriac World (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: King, Daniel

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume surveys the "Syriac world", the culture that grew up among the Syriac-speaking communities from the 2nd century CE and which continues to exist and flourish today.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 894
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317482116
• Artikelnr.: 55440047

Autorenporträt

Daniel King (Research Fellow, Cardiff University, UK) is a scholar of Syriac who specialises in the history of Syriac philosophy and its contribution to the progress of knowledge. His research is principally concerned with examining how the Syriac tradition adopted and adapted to its own environment the heritage of Greek Christian thought and ideas, and how it was able to translate large numbers of Greek texts into a new and distinctive idiom. He has a special interest in all aspects of the history of translation and currently works in East Africa advising and consulting on the translation of the Bible into the vernacular languages of the region.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part I: Backgrounds 1. The eastern provinces of the Roman
Empire in Late Antiquity 2. The Sasanian Empire Part II: The Syriac world
in Late Antiquity 3. The pre-Christian religions of the Syriac-speaking
regions 4. The coming of Christianity to Mesopotamia 5. Forms of the
religious life and Syriac monasticism 6. The establisment of the Syriac
Churches 7. The Syriac Church denominations: an overview 8. The Syriac
world in the Persian Empire 9. Judaism and Syriac Christianity 10. Syriac
and Syrians in the later Roman Empire: questions of identity 11. Early
Syriac reactions to the rise of Islam 12. The Church of the East in the
'Abbasid Era Part III: The Syriac langage 13. The Syriac language in the
context of the Semitic languages 14. The Classical Syriac language 15.
Writing Syriac: manuscripts and inscriptions 16. The Neo-Aramaic dialects
and their historical background Part IV: Syriac literary, artistic, and
material culture in Late Antiquity 17. The Syriac Bible and its
interpretation 18. The emergence of Syriac literature to AD 400 19. Later
Syriac poetry 20. Syriac hagiographic literature 21. The mysticism of the
Church of the East 22. Theological doctrines and debates within Syriac
Christianity 23. The liturgies of the Syriac Churches 24. Historiography in
the Syriac-speaking world, 300-1000 25. Syriac philosophy 26. Syriac
medicine 27. The material culture of the Syrian peoples in Late Antiquity
and the evidence for Syrian wall paintings 28. Churches in Syriac space:
architectural and liturgical context and development 29. Women and children
in Syriac Christianity: sounding voices 30. Syriac agriculture 350-1250
Part V: Syriac Christianity beyond the ancient world 31. Syriac
Christianity in Central Asia 32. Syriac Christianity in China 33. Syriac
Christianity in India 34. The renaissance of Syriac literature in the
twelfth-thirteenth centuries 35. Syriac in a diverse Middle East: from the
Mongol Ilkhanate to Ottoman dominance, 1286-1517 36. The Maronite Church
37. The early study of Syriac in Europe 38. Syriac identity in the modern
era 39. Changing demography: Christians in Iraq since 1991 Appendices I:
The patriarchs of the Church of the East II: West Syrian patriarchs and
maphrians III Online resources for the study of the Syriac world Maps Index
Subject Index